Olabanke Oyinkansola Goriola is a multidisciplinary artist-scholar, an Edward A. Bouchet scholar, and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Performance Studies. She is the author of An African Feminist Reading of Wole Soyinka (2024), published in The Republic, and the co-author of Burna Boy, #EndSARS, and the Use of Restlessness (2024), published in The Black Scholar (TBS) Journal of Black Studies and Research. Olabanke has an M.A. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, an MScR in Religious Studies from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), a European Union Joint M.A. in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage (Choreomundus) from (NTNU, Norway), (UCA, France), (SZTE, Hungary), (U.R., United Kingdom), and a B.A in Theatre Arts from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
